Student Profiles

Designing and building software solutions at Oracle America working on the Supply Chain Management suite of products with a focus on the Retail and Telecommunications offerings.

I started my career in the public sector and was rotated across vastly different jobs as part of the leadership development program in the public sector. I formulated tax incentives to turn Singapore into a global talent magnet; rehabilitated prisoners and drug addicts to give them a second chance in life; created programs to groom promising individuals into leaders; and finally went green and safeguarded our environmental resources. I eventually found my calling in leadership development and delved into it on a global scale in a hospitality and real estate company. I also volunteer as a pro bono consultant in the nonprofit sector, providing leadership development programs to CEOs of nonprofit organizations.

I’ve spent the last five and half years working in sales and marketing positions in the tech industry, working for large companies such as Microsoft, Nokia and Facebook.

I spent four years as a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal platoon commander, leading squads of highly trained bomb technicians in special operations overseas. My platoons did two tours in Iraq with the 101^st Airborne and Navy SEAL Team 5, completing more than 360 combat missions, including more than 130 high-risk counter-terrorist operations.

For the last 4 years I worked in Kantor Management Consultants, a management consulting firm that has strategic alliance with Booz & Company.

Cancer Research, Consultant, Volunteer at an NGO that fights against child trafficking.

I was an Associate at Goldman Sachs in the Special Situations Group (Alternative Energy Investing) before joining the Clinton Climate Initiative as a Senior Associate in Clean Energy (Solar Program).

I was a senior research analyst at Principal for about two years, focused on international strategy and opportunities, right in the middle of the crisis. It was anything but boring! Then I was a financial researcher at Centro de Estudios Publicos.

Senior Consultant with boutique consulting firms – first in strategy for Fortune 500 clients and most recently human capital/change management for federal agencies.

I have spent the last five years at an oilfield services company. For more than two of those years, I worked in the field and I spent twp years managing operations in the Gulf of Mexico. For the last eight months, I have been doing sales engineering for the same company in Houston.

I worked as a McKinsey Analyst focusing on consumer goods and retail. I am now working for a cosmetics company in new business development in Brazil.

I’ve worked in digital marketing at Mullen Advertising and also got my feet wet in documentary production while touring U.S. military bases for a DoD client! Prior to Mullen, I worked at a marketing automation startup (WebReply) that specialized in high-tech industries.

I worked in Supply Chain Management for three years in FMCG industry at Procter & Gamble in Turkey. I also spent three years in the same function in the energy industry (particularly Oil & Gas) at Calik Enerji in Turkmenistan. 

After starting a PhD in Mechanics regarding forced vibrations of turbine blades in aero engines, I have been involved in an entrepreneurial venture in the information technology sector (Bomexer/Pillit) and I joined a cleantech startup (W4E – Wave for Energy), where I served in marketing and business development positions, with the goal of bringing to market a floating device to harvest the energy within ocean and marine waves.

Warfare Officer on ships stationed in Japan and Virginia, responsible for the Aegis weapons system on last guided missile cruiser. After that, I volunteer taught former street children in New Delhi for three months.

Submarine officer, and since two years ago, Project Manager for a manufacturer of valves for nuclear power plant (new construction and upgrades).
 

I worked for Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems as a software engineer for seven years before coming to MIT Sloan.  

Nuclear Physician.

I worked in the NYC Mayor's Office of Operations as an internal consultant and project manager, specializing in customer service/experience, social media, and improving operational efficiency.

I worked as a strategy implementation consultant for BTS USA, NYC; a real estate agent for Prudential Sussex Realty, Vancouver; and head of Business Development at GreenBlue, Toronto. GreenBlue is a green technology company that I helped to found. It is in business to develop and commercialize the 35-year-old discovery that hydrogen has a catalytic effect on engine combustion, improving fuel economy and reducing emissions. I wrote the company's business plan and have been creating funding partnerships with governments and research partnerships with public universities. Our company also acquired an 86,000 square foot auto parts manufacturing plant in 2009, enabling us to manufacture our products in-house. We acquired the plant for one dollar, a sign of the times when we bought it (and a pretty cool story too, hopefully, with a good ending). We've been rebuilding the manufacturing side of the business and expect to do $40MM in sales this year.

Director of Communications for the Asian Women's Leadership University Project, which is a non-profit startup to establish a liberal arts college for women in Asia. I also previously designed social action campaigns for films and TV shows that leveraged cross-sector partnerships to further social causes.

I worked as a Schlumberger Drilling and Measurements Field Engineer in Doha, Qatar, from 2008 to 2010. Since 2010, I’ve been a Building Automation Division Manager at Proyectos Ambientales L.V.CH. in Caracas, Venezuela.

I worked for two small tech startups during college in Mexico. After graduation, I joined a tech consulting firm in the DC area (two years as a software engineer, one as a consultant) and then moved to Washington State to work for Microsoft as an IT Manager in the global ecommerce business for over four years.

Financial Consulting, splitting my time between the Financial Litigation Group and the Securities Group. I helped unravel Ponzi schemes, bankruptcies, and collapsed hedge funds.

This past summer, I stepped in as Acting Director of the Open Government Partnership, a new multilateral initiative working with 57 countries to reimagine a new 21st century citizen-government relationship. Prior to that, I had the honor of serving under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, as a Speechwriter and Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, Maria Otero; Previously, I worked in microfinance at ACCION International.

Innovation Business Development Manager at Ericsson.

Three years Flight Efficiencies/Aircraft Performance at easyJet airline, two years Flight Operations Engineering at Cyprus Airways, one and a half years Propulsion Design Engineering at Boeing.

I was an Associate for a global investment firm, where I worked on investments in publicly-traded emerging market natural resource companies. Afterwards, I joined the International Finance Corporation as an Investment Analyst in the Global Infrastructure & Natural Resources Group, where I worked on investments in Oil & Gas companies in Africa.

I studied jazz guitar and music business management at Berklee College of Music, and as is the case with most music school grads, I became an accountant. I worked for a large CT-based food and wine retailer for a couple of years, and I currently work at a large wine and spirits distributor based in NYC as a strategic projects analyst.

I have a six years experience in Telecommunications Industry and worked for both Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson at different positions such as services, sales and operations. Just before coming to MIT Sloan, in Ericsson, I had a team of fifteen people responsible for design and implementation of mobile internet services for operators in Turkey, Palestine, Azerbaijan, Georgia and part of Middle East.

Apache Helicopter Pilot, but most recently worked with Grameen Bank in Guatemala and the US.
 

Sales and product development with a Chilean Multinational Forestry Company. In charge of the USA, Canada and Oceania markets. Before that, I worked as a trader in bank selling currency and derivatives as well as building up more complex structural options for specific customers.

I was an initial team member of a biotech venture-backed startup in Los Angeles where I lad the development of many software projects. Currently, I work at the Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute where I lead software projects and write software solutions for biofuels and DNA sequencing related research projects.

I founded the first information-shredding business in Venezuela. I'm also involved in other startups across different sectors.

Before MIT Sloan I spent seven years at Summer Search Boston, a non-profit that helps low-income students get to and through college. I began in direct service, moved into program management, and eventually led the business-side of the organization as Development Director. I loved seeing students reach the milestone of college graduation.

Founder & CEO of LTG, a technology startup company developing a standardized test preparation platform for mobile devices (mainly iPhone). Team Leader & Software Engineer at GE Healthcare developing Medical Devices & Technology. Professional basketball player in Israel.

I am the Communications Manager at the Clinton Global Initiative and was formerly a journalist for seven years.

I worked as a project manager and lead software developer in Bloomberg LP’s Portfolio Analytics and Risk department. I was responsible for developing fixed-income scenario analysis applications for the Bloomberg Terminal.

In my exchange year in Sweden, I worked as a research engineer in an early-stage biotech start-up. After returning to Venezuela, I joined Procter&Gamble and held financial analysis and forecasting roles. For the past two years, I moved to Chile and worked as a consultant in Matrix Consulting (a Chilean strategy consulting firm co-founded by an MIT Sloan alum).

I worked for almost five years in Labor/Employee Relations (in unionized and non-unionized manufacturing plants) at Pratt & Whitney Aircraft and Kraft Foods.

Before coming to MIT Sloan, I worked for Ascend Learning, a charter school management organization. My work was primarily focused on new school startup and day-to-day school operations. I was the first full-time hire of the organization, and was instrumental in the opening of three schools in Brooklyn, NY. The schools now enroll over 1,000 students, with more than 100 staff members, across four buildings. Prior to that, I worked in two other social-sector startups, with a particular interest in corporate social responsibility, social entrepreneurship, and sustainability.

Policy Advisor & Investment Manager in the Treasury Department (Ministry of Finance), but started my own innovation company in the summer of 2011.

Ran my own business in the web development space, founded various other creative projects: (www.katiechamberlain.com, www.notesontheroad.com, www.mandysnotes.com).

I worked at McKinsey & Company.

I spent five years in strategy consulting with the Monitor Group. My time was spread across Boston, Mexico City, San Francisco, Mumbai, London, and Riyadh. I went for breadth versus depth in terms of industry and geography, but my heart was always in our social impact work. One of my favorite projects was during my time in India when I helped develop a cross-sector plan for increasing access to savings accounts for the population of Indians who live on less than $2 a day.

I’ve spent almost four years as a client-facing advisor for a private wealth management firm, Convergent Wealth Advisors in DC and LA.

I worked as a sales and marketing representative of agrochemicals for more than four years at Sumitomo Chemical in Japan. Besides my full-time work, I have provided social entrepreneurs with funding and capacity building support at Social Venture Partners Tokyo for more than six years. I also worked as a Marketing Research Associate for one year at Sumitomo Chemical America and conducted research for an anti-malaria mosquito net business.

I’ve worked in economic consulting in Boston for more than two years and in investments for one year.